Patent 7757977 was granted and assigned to Outotec on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to a method for comminution of material in a grinding mill, in which method the ground material from the mill is classified by means of particle sizes. After the classification of the ground material at least the part of the material having a particle size greater than the desired predetermined particle size is targeted to an electromagnetic energy treatment in at least one stage.